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Peter Seixas: Introduction to Historical Thinking in Canada

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What is Historical Thinking?

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"The Persistence of Memory" by Salvador Dali (1931)

Who am I ?

Who am I ?
Dr. Cynthia Wallace-Casey is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa, and SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the University of Ottawa Making History Education Research Unit. Her current research investigates national narratives, difficult history, and Historical Thinking in museums. She lives in New Brunswick.

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My Publications

  • (2022) Remembering and Reconciliation: Teaching and Learning the Legacy of Residential Schools in Canada
  • (2021) EDU5199: Synthesis in Education Proceedings
  • (2021) The Officers' Quarters Black History Special Edition, Volumes 37 & 38 (Guest Editor)
  • (2020) Remembering the First World War
  • (2019) 'I want to remember': Student narratives and Canada's History Hall
  • (2018) Constructing patriotism: How Canada's History Hall has evolved over 50 years
  • (2018) New Brunswick History Curriculum: Language Rights and Place-based History Education
  • (2017) De-Constructing Cabinets of Curiosity: Learning to Think Historically in Community History Museums (Chapter in: Creative Dimensions of Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century)
  • (2017) “I like to take everything and put it in my own words": Historical consciousness, historical thinking, and learning with community history museums
  • (2017) Deepening historical consciousness through museum fieldwork: Implications for community-based history education
  • (2016) Thinking historically in community history museums: A case study in contextual learning
  • (2014) 7th Graders and Their Pasts: A New Brunswick Case Study
  • (2013) What does Learning Look Like in a History Museum?
  • (1997) "Providential Openings": The Women Weavers of Nineteenth-Century Queens County, New Brunswick

My Favorite On-line Journals

  • Journal of New Brunswick Studies
  • Historical Encounters
  • International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching, and Research
  • Historical Studies in Education

History Teaching Resources

  • The Historical Thinking Project
  • The Virtual Historian
  • Historic Space
  • Historical Thinking Matters
  • Primary History Journals
  • Teaching History.org
  • Teaching History Journals

My Blog List

  • ActiveHistory.ca
    12th Annual(?) Year in Review (100 Years Later) - By Aaron Boyes and Sean Graham When we started this humble tradition back in 2013, it was based on a frustration with seeing year in review think pieces an...
    2 days ago
  • Play The Past
    Conquering the Curriculum: Learning Social Studies from Crusader Kings II - Joel is a MA student in the Communication and Culture program at York University in Toronto, where he plans to research the empathetic potentials of digita...
    2 months ago
  • History Tech
    Throwback Thursday: Primary sources and personal stories = awesome sauce - I got the chance this week to chat a bit with my kids – both now in Minnesota. And during the convo with the youngest, we ended up talking about a letter w...
    2 months ago
  • Museum 2.0
    8 Takeaways for Museums from Tiktok - Here are 8 things I learned after spending the last three months posting about art and museums of my personal Tiktok. With 50K followers, 34 Million vide...
    2 years ago
  • History@Work
    The Best British History Books - Do you wish you knew more about the history of Britain? Whether you're interested in the royal family or the working class, there are books that have del...
    3 years ago
  • The Uncataloged Museum
    A Wellcoming Power of Ten in London - Years ago, Rainey Tisdale introduced me to the concept of the power of ten, developed by the Project for Public Spaces--the idea that public places need...
    4 years ago
  • Unwritten Histories
    Wet’suwet’en Pipeline Dispute PowerPoint Presentation - Hey Folks! I’m currently teaching a course on Public History at Concordia University. On Thursdays, we do workshops where we learn hands on skills, and I...
    4 years ago
  • Sam Bradd
    Wellness Planning Toolkit and Evaluation for BC First Nations - The First Nations Health Authority has a new Health and Wellness Planning Toolkit – and we helped explain this holistic wellness process visually. From t...
    5 years ago
  • The Historian's Gaze
    What is Canada? Debating Canada's Past and Future (CANA 4000) - Next Fall I'm teaching the CANA 4000 seminar. I taught it a few years ago and enjoyed the experience immensely. The course explores current debates over th...
    10 years ago
  • Historisch Denken Lernen
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  • Teaching the Past: A Blog about Teaching History in Canada | The History Education Network
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  • Museum Audience Insight
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"I know a man whose school could never teach him patriotism, but who acquired that virtue when he felt in his bones the vastness of his land, and the greatness of those who founded it..." - PE Trudeau, The Ascetic in a Canoe, 1944
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